Roger Goodell: We want the Pro Bowl to be an honor without an exhibition game

The NFL has had more than 100 Pro Bowlers in recent years because of players who were either too injured or disinterested in participating.
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NFL ending Pro Bowl game. Player honors will remain, but alternates no longer acknowledged

The NFL held a flag-football competition at the Pro Bowl each of the last four years. Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images ATLANTA — Since 1951 the NFL has conducted some version of the Pro Bowl. The all-star ...
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NFL officially eliminates Pro Bowl game; players to still be honored as Pro Bowlers

(Gray News) - The NFL’s Pro Bowl game has been canceled. The league announced Wednesday the elimination of the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl game, which featured the league’s top players in an exhibition matchup ...

NFL discontinued Pro Bowl last week, but could have done it after game in KC

The NFL is doing away with the Pro Bowl, the All-Star Game that was played in warm-weather cities or a dome - except for when it was in KC.
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NFL ends the Pro Bowl game, but players will still be honored as Pro Bowlers

The Pro Bowl is no more, the NFL announced Wednesday, ending an exhibition of the league’s top players that was held in some form almost every year since 1951.